LVM being more "mainstream" was my reason. I don't really need send/recv, checksumming, or any of the ZFS magic, so if LVM snapshots were decent, I think it would result in an easier-to-maintain ...

But Linux distributions have avoided shipping ZFS support in the past due to licensing issues, and Ubuntu 16.04’s ZFS support sits smack-dab in the middle of a controversial legal gray area.

Ubuntu 19.10 has an option to use ZFS right out of the box. Jason Evangelho. Imagine that your current installation consumes 800GB of space and you’re using a 1TB drive.

ZFS for the masses is on the way with Ubuntu's zsys management system. Read the whole story. Log in ...

Canonical believes it can ship the latest version of Ubuntu with ZFS without risking legal turmoil, but not everyone remains convinced Canonical’s latest release of its Ubuntu Linux distribution ...

Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 19.10. This is the final version before Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, which is due next April. Ubuntu 19.10 comes with GNOME 3.34, ZFS support, and Linux kernel 5.3.